Archive for March, 2009
Plan plot scheme!
“PLAN PLOT SCHEME!” is what I wrote on my To Do list last weekend. …Not realising until I read it back that it’s just the sort of thing Guy Fawkes (not that one) may have typed into his PDA-equivalent one October weekend in 1605. What I meant was the relatively innocent task of planning a [...]
Grumpy old media
She wasn’t the first, and she certainly won’t be the last, but Rachel Sylvester’s Twitter-bashing editorial in today’s Times is surely the absolute worst thus far of the recent old media knee-jerk reactions to the use of Twitter by government and politicians. Not only is her microblogophobia out of step with her own paper, which [...]
Geek is good!
My big sister didn’t know I had a blog. She does now: Swiftly followed by: And look, she’s using Tweetdeck! Go sis! (And hello, if you’re reading this).
I’m living in a box
I’m living in a cardboard box. This is just some of the evidence of a weekend well spent. I also managed to plan my veg garden for 2009, more about which later this week.
Found/interesting: 1-8 March
Update: Simon has written up his work on the BERR and DFID Commentariat sites here. Look what I found interesting (including a little something I made earlier…) Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: A Vision and Eliminating World Poverty – these two new Commentariat-powered interactive publications went live near-simultaneously, making three outings in total across Whitehall for [...]
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
